E. Alfred Bleuler, M. D., who stands in the front rank
among the most successful practitioners of medicine in Macoupin County, has
been a resident of Carlinville almost from the beginning of his professional
career. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, May 25, 1856, and is a son of
Charles and Matilda (Mickel) Bleuler. His father was a native of
Switzerland, and his mother of Germany.
Charles Bleuler, father of
our subject, came to America in 1845 and settled in New York City where he
followed his business as an expert engraver, being employed by the United
States government in the engraving of bonds and contracts. He removed to
Philadelphia in 1847. Later he returned to New York City and in 1849, with
many others, he started for California, going by sailing vessel around Cape
Horn to San Francisco, the trip consuming 179 days. After reaching his
destination he engaged in gold mining in the placer regions for several
years, then returned East by the Isthmus of Panama route, coming up the
Mississippi River from New Orleans to St. Louis, where he arrived in 1852
during the prevalence of cholera and soon after went by boat to Cincinnati
where he remained for five months. He was married at Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1855, and after remaining there a short time the young
couple removed to Zanesville, Ohio, near which town he purchased a tract of
land. He followed farming there for a period of three years and in 1858 sold
out and moved to Quincy, Illinois. He shortly after removed to Jacksonville,
Illinois, where he became professor of German and French in the Illinois and
Bethany College, being very proficient in those languages. In 1860 he bought
a large tract of land in Morgan County, Illinois, on which he lived during
the following 20 years, finally returning, in 1880, to Jacksonville to spend
the remaining years of his life in retirement. He died February 28, 1901, at
the ripe old age of 89 years.
E. Alfred Bleuler attended the public
schools, Illinois College and the Jacksonville Business College, during
which time he also read medicine. He matriculated in Rush Medical College,
Chicago, in 1882, and subsequently was graduated from the St. Louis Medical
College. In 1898 he located in Carlinville, where he has since been
continuously engaged in practice. He made special study of diseases of the
ear, throat and nose, taking a postgraduate course in Berlin and Vienna in
1902, and makes a specialty of these branches. He has met with a high degree
of success, and enjoys the confidence and highest respect of his fellow
citizens and brother practitioners. He is a member of the Macoupin County
Medical Society, the State Medical Society, and the American Medical
Association. He is assistant surgeon for the Chicago & Alton Railway
Company, and examining physician for the Federal Life Insurance Company and
several fraternal insurance companies.
In October, 1889, Dr. Bleuler
was joined in marriage with Helen Thompson, a native of Petersburg,
Illinois, and they have one son, — Frank. Both are members of the Methodist
Church. Fraternally, our subject is a member of Mount Nebo Lodge, No. 79, A.
F. & A. M.; Orient Lodge No. 95, K. P.; and Carlinville Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Extracted 2018 May 07 by Norma Hass from Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Macoupin County, Illinois, published in 1904, pages 220-221.
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